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Select Library Folders in Rocket Player

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Hi, everybody. This is Chris with JRT Studio. I’m going to show you how to select folders to be scanned in Rocket Player. The reasons we want to do this is maybe sometimes our library doesn’t appear, or we want to remove some unwanted media files. As you can see right now, our library is empty in Rocket Player. Our library is located in the music folder, which is not currently being scanned. So we need to access Rocket Player’s scanner. To do that, we touch the overflow menu button at the bottom, select "settings" and then go ahead and touch the scanner settings. Then access the media folders.

From this menu, we can see that the SD card is shown to us but is not being scanned. So we want to bring down all the folders that are in the SD card. Here we can find our music folder. So we can bring down all of the items within the music folder and touch the individual artists, or we can just touch the music folder and it scans it all.

We also have some alarm folders that are being scanned, as well as the ring tone folder that’s being scanned. We want to just remove this because it’s really going to hinder our experience in Rocket Player by listening to ringtones and alarm sounds. Nobody really likes that, except for in the morning. So going to go ahead and uncheck that and then back out. We can see this notification up here at the top as Rocket Player rescans the library. We can cause Rocket Player – force Rocket Player – to rescan the library again by just clicking "rescan device" we see that notification again. Once we’ve got the folders configured, we back out. Now we have our library populated with our artists, albums, as well as songs. So thank you for watching and please keep rocking with Rocket Player.

Detailed Guide

What are folders in Rocket Player?
Folders are directories within your device's storage. Folders are configurable to scan for media.

Is it possible to scan one folder for media, but not another?
Yes, this is possible. The below tutorial will describe how to do it.

Why should I use folders? Shouldn't I want every media file on my device to be in Rocket Player?
You may want to configure folders that have ringtones or notification files used by other applications (e.g. Facebook, Google+) to be removed.

To access your library, first go into "Settings" in Rocket Player.

Select "My Library" in the "Settings" menu.

To designate which folders to scan, "Select Media Folders".

Here we see our storage path location(s). To bring down our specific files located within the location's path, press the storage.

When you bring down the storage path you now have access to all of our folders within our device. Some folders are already selected within the storage. Select the folders where your music is located. If you have a ringtone, notification or other unwanted item, deselect the folder where it is held and it will be removed from Rocket Player's library.

What's wrong with just deleting the file within Rocket Player?
If you want to simply delete, there is nothing wrong. Bear in mind that this will completely remove the file from your device and may never be able to be used again by any other application.

How can I view a complete list of my folders?
There are several applications that can do this but we recommend using ES File Explorer or connecting your device to your computer, accessing your storage locations and viewing the folders.

I have a question about folder support that was not addressed in this tutorial - who should I contact?
Please reach out to support at [email protected] and someone will get back with you.